Indonesian woman tries to help toddler quit smoking

After video of a two-year-old Indonesian boy smoking cigarettes circulated the Internet last week, sparking outrage around the world, his mother now says she is trying to help him quit.

According to a CNN report, the mother, Diana, brought baby Aldi to Jakarta to see help from Seto Mulyadi, chairman of Indonesia's National Commission for Child Protection. Mulyadi told Diana that she needed to find other distractions for Aldi, who normally smokes about 40 cigarettes a day.

"Smoking has been a part of our culture for so long it isn't perceived as being hazardous, as causing illness, as poisonous," Mulyadi told CNN's Arwa Damon, adding that Aldi's parents were primarily motivated by the cost of cigarettes, rather than the health risks, in seeking help for their son.

"Well, I don't want to give him cigarettes, but what I am I supposed to do? I am confused," the boy's mother told CNN. Aldi's father first game him cigarettes when he was 18-months-old.

Diana said she and her husband have quit smoking, but a study by the child protection commission in Indonesia shows a growing problem among children. Between 2001 and 2007, the number of children between the ages of five and nine who smoke increased 400 percent, according to the study.